Moscow’s diplomatic spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, argued that the divide embodied the West’s inconsistent passions for human rights. In January, Vilnius accused the Kremlin of “Stalinism” in its response to unauthorised rallies, banned under pandemic rules. This, Zakharova said, was in sharp contrast to how Lithuanian police deployed tear gas against …
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On Thursday morning, the embassy’s Twitter account called out the US State Department spokesman. “[Ned Price] keeps criticizing Russia for assumed human rights violations. Meanwhile, it is high time the US drew its attention to the internal situation,” the tweet said, including a link to an article posted on the …
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The road to hell has always been paved with good intentions. And so it is with Apple’s new detection tool, called NeuralHash, which can identify images of child abuse. The impending change to its operating system is a backdoor into its data storage system and its messaging system. Apple’s compromise …
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“In a time when many human lives have been lost to Covid-19 all across Rhode Island, this comment is extremely distasteful and insensitive,” Black Lives Matter RI PAC said on Wednesday in a Twitter post. “Regardless of political affiliation, the disregard for human life is unacceptable and should not be …
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Pack a suitcase and cancel Netflix: the human race is leaving for Mars. No, it’s not the plot of a new Hollywood blockbuster, but the work of Chris Mason, a renowned geneticist at Cornell University. He’s just released a book, ‘The Next 500 years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds’. …
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On Tuesday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said that forces from Israel and Palestine carried out attacks during the May 2021 conflict that violated the laws of war and “apparently amount to war crimes.” In their report, which brings together data from 30 interviews with eyewitnesses of Israeli attacks, video footage, …
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Law enforcement agencies across 47 countries participated in the mission, under which some 500,000 inspections were carried out at checkpoints and airports following local intelligence and tip-offs, Interpol said in a statement on Monday. As well as the overarching mission to combat migrant smuggling, the agency said that a further …
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This goes against America’s self-declared image of itself as a “global leader” in the protection of rights and freedoms around the world, Moscow said. In a lengthy report published on Thursday, Russia accused the US of “continuing to grossly violate human rights both inside and outside the country,” including through …
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Over the weekend, Axios journalist Jonathan Swan interviewed Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan on HBO. The outlet is well-known for pitching anti-China narratives, and Swan pressed Khan for his thoughts on what is happening to the Uighurs in Xinjiang, specifically calling their treatment a “genocide”. Khan rejected the questions, stating …
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When I was studying international human rights law at university almost a decade ago, I recall our lecturer stating that experts anticipate military enthusiasts to have fully developed killer robot technology within the next 20 years. Those predictions seem to be fairly accurate thus far, as recent developments suggest we …
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